Technical directory

Building Mozilla Thunderbird - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

Step by step guide on how to build Mozilla Thunderbird from source on Fedora Core using Thunderbird 1.5 as an example. Aimed at someone who has never built any Mozilla application before.

Send emails using telnet - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

A guide to sending emails using telnet, useful for testing a connection or if you are having problems sending mails using your email client.

Access POP email accounts with telnet - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

A guide to accessing a POP email account using telnet. Shows how to log in, read, list and delete emails using just a few basic commands.

Access IMAP email accounts with telnet - updated Thu, 07 Aug 2008

A guide to accessing an IMAP email account using telnet. Goes into detail on many IMAP commands showing you how to read email and organise your account.

Domain and DNS guide - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

Guide to buying a personal domain, setting up DNS records, understanding A and MX records, getting nameservers and checking your settings.

DHTML 1 - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

Cross browser compatable javascript examples using DHTML and the xmlHTTP object. Includes an easy to understand xmlHTTP example for converting temperatures.

DHTML 2 - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

Cross browser compatable javascript examples specifically about understanding the DOM and using javascript on a strict XHTML 1.1 doctype. Shows how to dynamically add content including hyperlinks and tables.

Redirection using PHP and 404 error pages - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

Using a custom 404 error page with PHP on Apache to redirect visitors. Useful if you move your sites content and want requests for the old page to be redirected to the new.

PHP tips - updated Wed, 27 Feb 2008

PHP hints and tips, mostly from problems I have encountered while making this web site. Many of the examples include modifying the headers sent by PHP enabling sending of 404 errors or sending data as application/xhtml+xml.